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DRAWING SET — TRAVEL TIMES USER GUIDE

How to read every route.

Travel Times has one job: show how your regular drive looks right now. This guide walks the whole app — from your first favorite to Live Activities, Siri, and the Apple Watch — as a set of numbered sheets. Pick one from the index.

SHEETS 01–14 · REVIEWED 2026·07·07 · REQUIRES iOS 26

FIG. 01 — OVERVIEW

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What Travel Times does

It reports live travel times and delay status for supported highway routes, then keeps your most important routes one tap away — from the route list, Favorites, Siri, Shortcuts, notifications, Apple Watch, and Live Activities.

SCOPE

Travel Times is not a turn-by-turn navigation app, and it does not need your location. It shows route status for known corridors so you can decide whether to leave now, wait, or take another familiar route.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS
DEVICE
iPhone or iPad running iOS 26 or later
WATCH
Optional — paired Apple Watch on watchOS 10 or later
ALERTS
Notification permission for scheduled reminders
LIVE ACT.
Live Activities enabled for Travel Times in iOS Settings
SIRI
Siri & Shortcuts available on the device
SYNC
iCloud key-value storage when available, local storage as fallback

FIG. 02 — QUICK START

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Set up in a minute

The whole app hangs off one thing: your favorite routes. Add the drives you make most, and Watch, notifications, Live Activities, groups, and Siri all light up.

  1. Open Travel Times.
  2. Review the Routes tab to see current travel times.
  3. Pull down on the route list to refresh live data.
  4. Tap a route to open its details.
  5. Add your regular routes to Favorites.
  6. Use Settings › Commute to set up route groups, notification schedules, and automatic Live Activities.
  7. Add the Apple Watch complication or use Siri shortcuts once your favorites are set.
START HERE

New to Travel Times? Start by adding the routes you drive most often. Favorites power the Watch app, notification schedules, Live Activities, route groups, and Siri commute answers — so the app can show the routes that matter before you leave.

FIG. 03 — READING THE ROUTES TAB

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Know your commute at a glance

The Routes tab is the main screen. It lists every supported route with its current travel time, delay status, and last-updated time.

Each route card shows

  • Route name, e.g. I-94 EB Zoo Interchange to Downtown
  • Current travel time, e.g. 14 min
  • Delay status — On time, +4 min, +12 min
  • A colored status rule on the left edge
  • A chevron to open route details

Status colors

■ CLEAR — on time ■ SLOWING — +1 to 5 min ■ CONGESTED — +6 min or more

Status is always shown with text, never color alone.

DETAIL A — ROUTES TAB SRC: iOS 26
iPhone Routes tab: a search field above route cards, each showing travel time, a text status, and a colored status rule.
Search sits above scannable route cards with time, text status, and a colored rule.

Last updated

The timestamp above the list shows when the displayed data was last refreshed. Same-day data reads Updated at 7:13 AM; older saved data includes the day.

Refreshing

  1. Open the Routes tab.
  2. Pull down on the list.
  3. Release when the refresh control appears.

Travel Times also refreshes when you return to the app if the saved route data is stale.

Offline & cached data

If the network is unavailable, Travel Times uses the most recent saved data when possible, shows an offline banner, and keeps the timestamp visible so you can tell how old it is. If no saved data exists, it shows a retry action.

Searching routes

  • Search matches route names.
  • Results update as you type.
  • Matching text is highlighted.
  • No matches shows a clear empty state and a Clear Search action.
DETAIL B — SEARCH SRC: iOS 26
Routes search filtered to airport routes, showing a single minor-delay result.
Search narrows the list immediately — handy when a corridor has several similar names.

FIG. 04 — FAVORITES

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Keep your drives one tap away

Favorites keep your regular drives at the top of the experience. They also power Apple Watch, notification scheduling, route groups, commute briefs, and Siri commute answers.

Add from the Routes tab

  1. Open the Routes tab.
  2. Swipe left on a route card.
  3. Tap Favorite. If it is already a favorite, the action becomes Unfavorite.

Add or remove from Route Details

  1. Tap a route to open Route Details.
  2. Tap Add to Favorites.
  3. If it is already saved, tap Remove from Favorites.

Travel Times confirms the change with haptic feedback and an accessibility announcement.

DETAIL C — FAVORITES SRC: iOS 26
iPhone Favorites tab showing saved route cards and the notification bell button.
Saved routes stay one tap away; the bell opens notification setup.

In the Favorites tab you can

  • Tap a favorite to open Route Details.
  • Pull to refresh.
  • Drag favorites to reorder them.
  • Swipe left to delete a favorite.
  • Tap the bell button to manage notification schedules.

With no favorites yet, the tab shows a Browse Routes action.

FIG. 05 — ROUTE DETAILS

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Everything about one route

Tap any route to open Route Details, which gathers the current status, an arrival estimate, favorite state, a share action, and the Live Activity control in one place.

The detail screen shows

  • Route name and highway shield, when a matching shield exists.
  • Current travel time and estimated arrival time.
  • Delay status and last-updated time.
  • Matching traffic incidents, when available.
  • Favorite, Share, and Live Activity buttons.
DETAIL D — ROUTE DETAILS SRC: iOS 26
iPhone Route Details showing travel time, estimated arrival, delay, favorite, share, and Live Activity controls.
Status, arrival estimate, favorite, share, and Live Activity — all in one place.

Estimated arrival

Estimated arrival adds the current travel time to the current clock time. If it is 7:30 AM and the route is 16 minutes, arrival appears as 7:46 AM.

Incidents

When route-related incidents are available, Travel Times shows them below the main route card. If there are no matching incidents, that section stays hidden.

DETAIL E — INCIDENTS SRC: iOS 26
Route Details with active incident categories expanded below the route card.
Incident summaries appear only when matching data is available.

Sharing a route

  1. Open Route Details.
  2. Tap the share icon in the navigation bar.
  3. Choose Messages, Mail, or another destination.

The shared text includes the route name, current travel time, delay, freshness timestamp, and traveltimesapp.com.

FIG. 06 — COMMUTE BRIEF & ROUTE GROUPS

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Organize your commutes

The commute brief answers one question fast: which route is best, which is worst, and whether anything is delayed. It builds from your route groups when available, and falls back to Favorites.

The same brief powers the in-app commute summary and the Siri and Shortcuts Check commute answer. Route groups let you organize favorites into commute sets:

MORNING EVENING AIRPORT WEEKEND SCHOOL PICKUP

Create a route group

  1. Open Settings › Route Groups.
  2. Tap the add button.
  3. Enter a group name.
  4. Select one or more favorite routes.
  5. Tap Save.

Edit or delete

  • Tap an existing group to rename it or change its routes, then Save.
  • Swipe left on a group and tap Delete to remove it.
REQUIRES FAVORITES

Route groups need favorites. If you have none yet, add favorites from the Routes tab or Route Details first.

FIG. 07 — NOTIFICATION SCHEDULES

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Alerts only when they matter

Notification schedules send route reminders on selected days and times — useful for regular departure windows like weekday mornings or evening commutes. Open them from the Favorites bell or Settings › Commute › Notification Schedules.

Create a schedule

  1. Open Notification Schedules and tap the add button.
  2. Select one or more favorite routes.
  3. Select the days of the week.
  4. Choose a time.
  5. Optionally enable Only notify when delayed.
  6. If delay-only is on, set the delay threshold in minutes.
  7. Tap Save.
DETAIL F — SCHEDULE SRC: iOS 26
Notification schedule sheet with a 5:00 PM schedule and a sample commute notification banner.
Manage schedules from Favorites or Settings; a test alert confirms it works.

Smart alerts

Only notify when delayed makes a schedule quieter: Travel Times schedules the alert only when at least one selected route is delayed by the threshold you choose.

EXAMPLE — SMART ALERTS

Routes: I-94 EB and I-43 SB. Threshold: 10 minutes.

If both are under 10 minutes of delay, the schedule is skipped. If I-43 SB is delayed by 11 minutes, the notification fires and names that delayed route.

Manage schedules

  • Turn a schedule on or off with the switch.
  • Tap a schedule to edit it.
  • Swipe left to delete it.
  • Tap the test button to send a sample notification after 5 seconds.

If notifications are disabled, Travel Times shows an option to open iOS Settings.

FIG. 08 — LIVE ACTIVITIES

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Your route on the Lock Screen

Live Activities keep one route visible on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and StandBy while you are actively tracking it.

Start manually

  1. Open a route.
  2. Tap Start Live Activity.
  3. Lock your phone or view the Dynamic Island to see the route status.

To stop it, return to Route Details and tap End Live Activity.

Start automatically

  1. Open Settings › Auto Live Activity.
  2. Choose a favorite route — or choose Off to turn it off.

Auto Live Activity starts one favorite route when fresh data arrives while the app is active.

DETAIL G — LOCK SCREEN SRC: iOS 26
iPhone Lock Screen showing a Travel Times Live Activity with the current route and travel time.
One route stays live on the Lock Screen while you track it.
FOREGROUND-ONLY

Automatic Live Activities are foreground-only. Travel Times never surprise-starts a new Lock Screen surface from the background. Tap a Live Activity to open Travel Times straight to that route.

FIG. 09 — SIRI & SHORTCUTS

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Ask before you leave

Travel Times exposes app shortcuts for common actions. Try phrases like these:

  • Open Travel Times
  • Show my routes in Travel Times
  • Show my favorites in Travel Times
  • Refresh Travel Times
  • Check my commute in Travel Times
  • How is my commute in Travel Times

The inline commute answer

Check my commute returns an answer without opening the app. It summarizes your commute brief from route groups or favorites.

INLINE ANSWER — EXAMPLE

“Your morning commute looks mostly clear. I-94 EB is on time at 14 min, and I-43 SB is running +6 min.”

You can also build personal automations in the Shortcuts app using the Travel Times actions.

FIG. 10 — APPLE WATCH

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On your wrist

Travel Times includes an Apple Watch companion focused on favorites.

  1. Add favorite routes on iPhone.
  2. Open Travel Times on Apple Watch.
  3. Review the favorite route cards.
  4. Tap a route to open its detail view.
Apple Watch showing Travel Times favorite route cards with delay status.

Favorites, sorted by delay

Delayed routes rise to the top so the worst news is first.

Watch behavior

  • Favorite routes sync from the iPhone.
  • Delayed routes sort toward the top.
  • The header shows ALL CLEAR when no favorites are delayed.
  • When delays exist, the header shows the number of delayed favorites.
  • If the Watch data is stale, tap the refresh footer to ask the iPhone for fresh data.

With no favorites, the Watch app prompts you to add routes on iPhone.

Watch complication

The complication shows your first favorite route and its current travel time.

  1. Open the Watch app on iPhone, or edit the watch face on Apple Watch.
  2. Choose a face that supports rectangular complications.
  3. Add the Travel Times complication.

It updates when the iPhone sends fresh favorite-route data to the Watch.

FIG. 11 — IPAD

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Split-view on iPad

On iPad, Travel Times uses a split-view layout: a sidebar (Routes, Favorites, Settings), the route list beside it, and Route Details in a detail column — so you can scan routes and keep a selected route visible.

DETAIL H — SPLIT VIEW SRC: iPadOS 26
iPad Favorites split view: sidebar navigation, saved route list, and an empty detail pane.
Sidebar and route list stay visible while the detail pane waits for a selection.
DETAIL I — DETAIL PANE SRC: iPadOS 26
iPad Route Details split view showing a selected delayed route in the detail column.
Selecting a route keeps the list and the full detail view side by side.

Context menus

On iPad and pointer devices, long-press or right-click a route row to:

  • View details.
  • Add or remove the route from Favorites.
  • Copy the route name.
  • Share a short route status.

Keyboard shortcuts

IPAD KEYBOARD — HARDWARE
⌘R
Refresh routes
⌘F
Focus search
Esc
Clear search or dismiss the keyboard
⌘1
Open Routes
⌘2
Open Favorites
⌘3
Open Settings

FIG. 12 — SETTINGS

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Where everything lives

Settings is organized around commute configuration, app information, and data behavior.

Commute

  • Notification Schedules — create, edit, test, enable, disable, and delete route alerts.
  • Route Groups — group favorite routes for commute briefs.
  • Auto Live Activity — choose one favorite route to start automatically.

App & data

  • About Travel Times, and Rate the app.
  • Refresh interval — routes refresh automatically when stale, and can be refreshed manually.
DETAIL J — SETTINGS SRC: iOS 26
iPhone Settings screen showing notification schedules, app links, and refresh interval.
Commute controls, app information, and data refresh behavior, grouped.

FIG. 13 — PRIVACY & ACCESSIBILITY

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No location. Built for everyone.

Travel Times does not require location permission because it does not track where you are. It reports live route status for predefined corridors.

Data the app uses

  • Live route data from the Travel Times route API.
  • Traffic incident data, when available.
  • Favorite routes, stored locally and synced through iCloud when available.
  • Notification schedules, stored on device.
  • Route groups and the Auto Live Activity preference, stored on device.

If iCloud is unavailable, favorites continue to work locally. For the full policy, read the Privacy Policy.

Accessibility

Travel Times is designed for a five-second glance, and supports the features people rely on:

  • VoiceOver labels and hints, with spoken route status including delay text
  • Dynamic Type, including accessibility text sizes
  • Reduced Motion for discoverability animations
  • Reduced Transparency fallbacks for glass effects
  • High-contrast adaptive colors
  • Haptic feedback for important actions
  • 44-point minimum touch targets and iPad keyboard shortcuts

FIG. 14 — TROUBLESHOOTING & FAQ

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Fixes for common snags

Most issues trace back to network, permissions, or favorites. Tap a question to expand it.

I don’t see any routes.

Check your network connection and pull to refresh. If the app has saved data, it shows cached routes. If no saved data exists, use the retry action.

The route data looks old.

Check the timestamp above the route list. Pull down on the Routes tab to force a refresh.

I can’t create a notification schedule.

Notification schedules require favorite routes. Add at least one favorite first.

Notifications aren’t arriving.

Open Settings › Commute › Notification Schedules and confirm the schedule is enabled. Then check iOS Settings to make sure notifications are allowed for Travel Times.

If Only notify when delayed is on, the alert may be skipped when no selected route meets the delay threshold.

Live Activities don’t appear.

Make sure Live Activities are enabled for Travel Times in iOS Settings. Then open a route and use Start Live Activity, or choose a route in Settings › Commute › Auto Live Activity.

Siri says no commute routes are set up.

Add favorites first. For a more focused answer, create a route group in Settings › Commute › Route Groups.

My Watch doesn’t show routes.

Add favorites on iPhone and open Travel Times on Apple Watch. If the data is stale, tap the refresh footer on the Watch app.

My favorites aren’t syncing.

Make sure you are signed in to iCloud. Favorites still work locally if iCloud is unavailable.

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